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John M. Gilheany

@neonista.bsky.social
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"Books are for writing not for reading." 📚 Quentin Crisp 💫 I write stuff anyway: medium.com/@nuromanca Delusions of Dandeur 🎩

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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
@dickon-edwards.bsky.social imparts many a droll epigram where #QuentinCrisp left off in the late 90s. A rarefied delight with pop star panache 💫
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
💙 🇬🇧 💛 ✊🇺🇦🙏💫
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Nick-A-BOO❗ #NickRhodes #DuranDuran #Synths 🎹
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
youtu.be/2cU53wWb6UI?... #OMD #Synthpop #Futurist #ThowbackThursday
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The Punishment of Luxury
YouTube video by OMDVEVO
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Some tasks will always be too fiddly for robotics..!!! #ConstructionSkills #UKconstruction #Trades #ConstructionIndustry
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
'Seasonal Excess' never bothered a #Regency Rake #RegencyHistory #Theatre #NoelCoward #BritishHistory medium.com/@nuromanca/n...
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Noël Coward’s Regency Rakes | How Britain’s Roistering Scoundrels of Stage took a Century to Sober…
A look at the darker side of Dandyism, courtesy of Noël Coward’s 'Regency Rakes' 🎩 🍷 🍷 👊 🍷 🍷 🤮 😵 🤮
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#Hikoki #PowerTools #Reviews #Carpentry #Construction #Trades hikokininja.com/hikoki-m3612...
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HiKOKI | M3612DA | ½" Cordless Plunge Router | REVIEW
In June 2021, the spotlight fell on HiKOKI's 36v Router at its UK launch.  Now the World's First ½" Cordless Plunge Router has rivals — or does it?
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🤜 'keeping a hand in' 🤛 Where have all the 1st Fix chippies gone... 🫥 🫥 🫥 🫥 🫥 There's something satisfying about turning trusses and timber lengths into exact structures. Old school #carpentry methods + a touch of trig 📐 🙈
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Earnings Ace, Sasha Yanshin now brings wider #Economic & #Financial Clarity 🤓 Honesty 💯 Accuracy 🎯 And Simplicity to statistical analysis of the #UKeconomy Check out his latest deep-dive for a preview of where things are rapidly going... 🙈 youtu.be/ITGbUxorwSY?...
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UK Jobs Freefall: The Economy Just Snapped Again
YouTube video by Sasha Takes On UK
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Pioneer #MinimalWave 🎹🎵🎶 from the mid #00s on #ThrowbackThursday 🎧 #Synthpop 👨🏻‍🎤 youtu.be/-i-8u3CX7ug?...
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VELVET CONDOM - Kalter Lippenstift
YouTube video by keth67
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A blast of #Cyberpunk #Fururepop #EBM on #ThrowbackThursday ⏪ 2005 track 👾 🎹 #Synthsky 😎 youtu.be/pA8pjVk60uI?...
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My Device
YouTube video by AYRIA
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
When #80sMovies provide definitive #synth soundtracks 🎹 🎵 🎶 Like #BladeRunner youtu.be/A03x9uw25kI?...
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Vangelis : Blade Runner (End Titles)
YouTube video by ElectroDreams
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Still saving up for a #JoshuaKane suit 🖤♥️ #FashionDiaries #FashionOfTheDay #DarkFashion #Tailoring #Style medium.com/@nuromanca/t...
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The ‘Dandy Rebels Collection’ by Joshua Kane
A look at the latest Joshua Kane collection, 'Dandy Rebels' - in the context of Dandyism as a form of rebellion. From the Regency era to Johnny Rotten!
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
TIMELESS #electronica from the shadows of #80s #synthpop for #ThrowbackThursday 🎤 Vive la différence! 🎹 🎵 🎶 #Synthsky 😎 youtu.be/6Ki2R9OieiY?...
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Kas Product - Never Come Back
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us." #QuentinCrisp #SuperSoulSunday
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#ThrowbackThursday #FashionHistory #Dandy #Style dandy-does-it.blogspot.com/2023/04/Dand...
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Dandy Style | Explore 250 years of Elegance at Manchester Art Gallery (Free Admission)
Dandyism explored, discussed and magnificently presented over recent centuries. Enjoy the wit, style, elegance and intrigue of the Dandy!
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Exquisite glam folk farceur, 'King Charles' 👄 👑 👄 ( #CharlesCosta these days ) #ThrowbackThursday #2010s #FolkPop youtu.be/yxwWDw8Q2hA?...
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King Charles - Bam Bam
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"A bit too early for coffee; I'll have a scotch". Peter Wyngarde's detective/author bon vivant #JasonKing And perhaps the most #70s remark of all time 🥃 🚬 #SaturdayStyle 🧣 #SaturdayMorning 😜
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🎵From out of nowhere, you decide🎵 #Synth #Synthsky #ElectronicMusic 🎹 😎 youtu.be/GsRu8WJJEtU?...
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Numb
YouTube video by Sombre Moon - Topic
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Before I was booted off the other place for being beastly to ᵣussians 🇷🇺 🗑️ #80sFashion #NewRomantics #80s medium.com/@nuromanca/n...
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A youthful #HansZimmer and a superb #Synthpop collaboration with Warren Cann of #Ultravox stature 🎹 🎵 🎶 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Helden - Warren Cann & Hans Zimmer - YouTube
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Crisp's First Law: "If you feel that you cannot comply with the morality of the world, you must do everything else you can to be agreeable.” #QuentinCrisp
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
An articulate, effete and relatively youthful #JohnLydon Whose #70s to #90s interviews capture a delightful repertoire of weary wit and ironic detachment - all while traipsing through absolute acres of ennui... 😏 Well worth investigating 😄 😂 😜
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"I had fallen in love with myself. To have a girlfriend would now be unfaithful". Sebastian Horsley 'Dandy in the Underworld - an unauthorised autobiography' (2007)
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"Men today do not understand the power of wardrobe. It takes balls to be a #dandy ." Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen in fine fettle 🔥
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
#Regency #Georgian #19thCentury #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #CulturalHistory medium.com/@nuromanca/d...
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A Dandy Diatribe | by one in their midst! Captain Gronow reflects… and rebukes the Regency Beaux 🎩
What were the Dandies of Regency London really like?
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
#SoftCell should sue 😂 #Comedy #Parody #Synthpop #Satire youtu.be/80JMiXNmYu4?...
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Seedy Pimp
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Electric Dreams... a bit beyond AI fulfillment 😐 (as yet) 🎹 🤖 #GenX #Numanoid #MidlifeCrisis yr12 #TransformationThursday 🥸
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Is this an oldie 🤔 🎹 🎵🎶 Whatever 💜 #Editors #ElectronicMusic youtu.be/Wq4tyDRhU_4?...
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Editors - Papillon
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Fine and Dandy and More Besides! 💫⭐✨ #AdamAnt #AdamAndTheAnts #80s #Retro #MidWeek #MoodLift 😎
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It's lovely to escape to a quiet dungeon of #KnightLore every so often... 🧙‍♂️ #RetroGame #RetroGaming #ZXspectrum
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Stranger Things 🤩 #SteveStrange #BlitzKids #80s #NewRomantic #Visage
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"There are three great men of our age: myself, Napoleon, and Brummell. But of us three, the greatest of all is Brummell". #LordByron A sentiment explored in the apocryphal BBC4 drama 'This Charming Man' (2006) #Regency #BeauBrummell #Byron #JamesPurefoy #HughBonneville #MatthewRhys
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
#BenjaminDisraeli "It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being". 'The Young Duke' (1831)
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
#QuentinCrisp "In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast".
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
#50s Never the Twain #80s 🤨 #DepecheMode 🎹 🎸 youtu.be/Vt69FeFz-ko?...
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Depeche Mode - Violator, if it was recorded in the 50s
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
If you love #80s #Synthpop there's a massive modern #Electronica scene that deserves #GenX (Y, Z) support 😍 😎 🤩 The 🎹 🎵🎶 style is always evolving 💫 ✨ Where oh where to begin... well, here's as superb a spot as any: youtu.be/glW97EedWpA?...
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Promenade Cinema - Play With Fate [New Single]
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
#PeterEgan as 'The #PrinceRegent ' - going on #GeorgeIV in the BBC drama (1979) A delightful, alluring and astutely witty portrayal of the spectacular #Regency fop 🤩 #NigelDavenport weighs in splendidly, as an exasperated #GeorgeIII (DVD of the 6-part series released in 2016)
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
#IanMcShane elegantly evokes the #Dandy days of #Victorian PM Benjamin Disraeli 🎩 Count D'Orsay and Edward Bulwer-Lytton - other leading beaux - are captured in equally exquisite style. A reasonably lavish ITV series from 1978, released on DVD 2007
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
#BridesheadRevisited #EvelynWaugh medium.com/@nuromanca/t...
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The Exquisite origins of ‘Anthony Blanch’, my dears!
“Do you realise, Harold — please pay attention to this — that you and I are going to have a rather famous career at Oxford?”
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
#PeterWyngarde "I'm 50% vegetarian, 100% bisexual."
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
#NoelCoward "I was unwise enough to be photographed in bed wearing a Chinese dressing gown and an expression of advanced degeneracy. This last was accidental and was caused by blinking at the flashlight, but it emblazoned my unquestionable decadence firmly on to the minds of all who saw it." 📸
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"The birdsong needs no audience to be perfect; neither does your life." A relentless reminder of the beauty of being Forgotten 💭 Even memory itself... #MondayMotivation 🤣 youtu.be/tI0PdpzRuEg?...
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3 Hours of Liberating Philosophy to Fall Asleep To
YouTube video by SleepNomad
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A banquet of Dandy Decor 🧣 Anthony Andrews, in majestic mode, as Lord Sebastian Flyte ✨ A glorious spectacle (even without Aloysius the🧸) #BridesheadRevisited #EvelynWaugh #Vintage #1920s #BrightYoungThings #Style #HomeDecor
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
An #80s extravaganza by the Legendary 'Men Without Hats' 🤩 (which makes it alright!) youtu.be/gV6SF492hNU?...
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Men Without Hats - I ❤️ The '80s [Official Video]
YouTube video by Men Without Hats
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Explore the epitome of #VintageStyle ✨ As celebrated by #NoelCoward #DavidNiven #CaryGrant #FrankSinatra #FredAstaire #SammyDavisJnr #DeanMartin #OscarWilde and other #Dapper exponents of #VintageFashion 'Shoulders Back!' - or as you were... 😌 medium.com/@nuromanca/t...
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The Smoking Jacket | from dusky Drawing Rooms to the Greeters’ Guild!
‘Troy Hawke’ bestows perfect poise and exquisite manners upon bewildered British shoppers — whatever the occasion.
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
'When the virus of love enflames your brain try to remember that grafting is for trees and cleaving is for snails and you are neither'. Quentin Crisp
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
#NewRomantic aspiration at its most ethereal ✨ #80s youtu.be/0Dd_FLg9u0o?...
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
😎 No Other Way 😎 #Sparks 🎹 🎵 #ArtPop 🎸🎶 #FridayFeeling 💫 ✨ Awesome as Ever ✨ youtu.be/PdY_rx-TOWE?...
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Sparks - Do Things My Own Way (Official Video)
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John M. Gilheany @neonista.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
'Fallen Angels' by Mike McMahon An image that's somehow slid beyond fan awareness... despite the artist's cult status among #JudgeDredd & #2000ad readers. From a colour photocopy of a fading t-shirt (on sale around 1987) Awaiting re-issue 😉 @2000ad.bsky.social #ComicArt
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